When an agency analyst uploaded the malware found on Zhang’s
thumb drive, it immediately began installing on the analyst’s
computer and corrupting its files.
“That was something that had never happened before,”
Ivanovich told the judge. He said the analyst immediately
shut down the computer to protect it.
Attorney: Mar-a-Lago infiltrator
had hidden-camera detector
POSTED 4:12 PM, APRIL 8, 2019, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Chinese woman recently arrested at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club lied repeatedly to Secret Service agents while carrying computer malware unlike anything a government analyst had ever seen and had more than $8,000 in cash at her hotel room, along with an electronic device that detects hidden cameras, federal authorities told a judge Monday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Rolando Garcia told Magistrate Judge William Matthewman during a bond hearing that “there are a lot of questions that remain” about 32-year-old Yujing Zhang
He said the FBI is still investigating whether Zhang is a spy.
Zhang was arrested March 30 after Secret Service agents said she lied to gain admission to the president’s Palm Beach resort and was found to be carrying two Chinese passports, four cellphones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive and a thumb drive containing the malware.
Matthewman adjourned the hearing until next Monday as Zhang’s public defender said he’s still gathering evidence that could justify her release on bail on charges of lying to federal agents and illegal entry to a restricted area. Garcia said he expects Zhang will be indicted by a federal grand jury this week on those charges.
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He said Zhang would be a “serious risk of flight” if she were released while awaiting trial, as she has no ties to the United States. The State Department revoked her visa last week, he said, so even if released on bond, she would be detained by immigration officials. She arrived in the U.S. on a flight from Shanghai to Newark, New Jersey, two days before her arrest.
Zhang sat quietly at the defense table during the two-hour hearing, scribbling notes in Chinese characters as she listened to a translator through headphones. She wore a blue jail jumpsuit and her wrists were shackled.
“She lies to everyone she encounters,” Garcia told the judge. He said that not only did Zhang falsely tell a Secret Service agent at a Mar-a-Lago checkpoint that she was a member there to use the pool, even though she had no swimsuit, she told agents she was carrying her computer gear because she was afraid the items would be stolen if she left them in her hotel room.
But when agents searched it, they found $7,620 in U.S. currency, another $663 worth of Chinese currency, numerous U.S. credit and debit cards, the device used to find hidden electronics and other computer gear, he said.
Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich told the judge that when an agency analyst uploaded the malware found on Zhang’s thumb drive, it immediately began installing on the analyst’s computer and corrupting its files.
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“That was something that had never happened before,” Ivanovich told the judge. He said the analyst immediately shut down the computer to protect it. He said the malware’s ultimate purpose remains unknown.
When agents analyze suspicious devices that might contain malicious software, it is done in a controlled environment and not performed on a computer connected to any government networks, according to Secret Service officials.
While questioning Ivanovich, public defender Robert Adler presented Zhang as not fluent in English and suggested she may not have been lying, but misunderstanding agents’ questions. He pointed out that Zhang made no attempt to hide her electronic gear while entering Mar-a-Lago and agreed to be interviewed for almost nine hours.
Adler asked that the hearing be adjourned as he believes he can prese
nt evidence next week that would justify her release on bail while assuring she wouldn’t flee.
Zhang’s arrest has raised questions about Mar-a-Lago’s security during the president’s visits. There’s no evidence Zhang ever approached the president and it is believed he was at his nearby golf course when she arrived.
谷歌同学译文：
律师：Mar-a-Lago 渗透者有隐藏摄像头探测器
发布于2019年4月8日下午4点12分，由美联社发布
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新宣布的海洋钻探豁免后的第二天，大西洋与总统唐纳德特朗普
的海滨前Mar-a-Lago度假村相邻，有时也被称为冬季白宫。计划
于2018年1月11日在佛罗里达州棕榈滩举行。佛罗里达州是唯一
一个获得免除宣布的放松管制计划的州，该计划允许在以前受
保护的大西洋和太平洋海域进行海上石油和天然气钻探。
佛罗里达州西棕榈滩 - 最近在总统唐纳德特朗普的Mar-a-Lago俱乐
部被逮捕的一名中国女子在携带计算机恶意软件时多次向特勤局
特工说谎，这与政府分析师所见过的不同，她的酒店现金超过
8,000美元联邦当局周一告诉法官说，房间里还有一个检测隐藏
摄像头的电子设备。
美国助理检察官罗兰多加西亚在一次债券听证会上告诉地方法官
威廉马修曼，关于32岁的张玉静，“仍有很多疑问仍未解决”
他说联邦调查局仍在调查张是否是间谍。
在特勤局经纪人说她谎称要进入总统的棕榈滩度假村并被发现
携带两本中国护照，四部手机，一台笔记本电脑，外接硬盘和
一个装有恶意软件的拇指驱动器后，张某于3月30日被捕。
由于张的公设辩护人表示，他仍在收集证据，证明她可以证明她
因向联邦特工撒谎和非法进入禁区而被保释的理由。加西亚表示，
他预计张某本周将被联邦大陪审团起诉。
Mar-a-Lago被捕突出了特朗普庄园的安全风险
他说，如果张女士在等待审判期间被释放，那将是一个“严重的
逃亡风险”，因为她与美国没有关系。他说，美国国务院上周撤销
了她的签证，所以即使获得保释金，她也会被移民官员拘留。她
在被捕前两天从上海飞往新泽西州纽瓦克的航班抵达美国。
在两小时的听证会期间，张静静地坐在防守桌旁，用耳机听翻译
时，用中文写下笔记。她穿着一件蓝色的监狱连身衣，她的手腕
被戴了镣铐。
“她对遇到的每个人说谎，”加西亚对法官说。他说不仅张某错误
地告诉Mar-a-Lago检查站的特勤局特工说她是那里的会员才使用
游泳池，即使她没有泳衣，她告诉代理她带着她的电脑装备，
因为她如果她把物品放在酒店房间里，他们会害怕这些物品会
被偷走。
但是当代理商搜索它时，他们发现美元货币为7,620美元，另有
价值663美元的中国货币，许多美国信用卡和借记卡，用于寻找
隐藏电子设备和其他电脑设备的设备，他说。
特勤局特工Samuel Ivanovich告诉法官，当一名机构分析师上传张
的拇指驱动器上发现的恶意软件时，它立即开始在分析师的计算机
上安装并破坏其文件。
据称携带恶意软件的中国女人进入了Mar-a-Lago
“这是以前从未发生的事情，”伊万诺维奇告诉法官。他说，分析师
立即关闭电脑以保护它。他说恶意软件的最终目的仍然未知。
根据特勤局官员的说法，当代理商分析可能包含恶意软件的可疑
设备时，它是在受控环境中完成的，而不是在连接到任何政府网络
的计算机上进行的。
在向伊万诺维奇提问时，公设辩护人罗伯特·阿德勒（Robert Adler）
表示，张英文不会说流利的英语，并建议她可能不会说谎，而是
误解代理人的问题。他指出张在进入Mar-a-Lago时没有试图隐藏
她的电子装备，并同意接受采访近9个小时。
阿德勒要求听证会休会，因为他认为他可以预告
下周有证据证明她获准保释，同时保证她不会逃跑。
在总统访问期间，张的被捕引发了对Mar-a-Lago安全的质疑。没有
证据表明张某曾接近过总统，据信当她到达时他就在附近的高尔夫
球场。
Agents say she wasn’t on the membership list, but a club manager thought Zhang was a member’s daughter. Agents say that when they asked Zhang if the member was her father, she did not answer definitively but they thought it might be a language barrier and admitted her. Zhang is a common Chinese name — about 7% of the country’s population carries it.
Ivanovich told the judge Zhang later told him she was there for a Chinese American event that didn’t exist, contradicting her checkpoint statement. She showed him an invitation in Chinese he could not read.
After being questioned for about 90 minutes at a property neighboring Mar-a-Lago, Zhang was taken to the local Secret Service office for questioning that lasted about seven hours. It was not recorded.
There, Ivanovich said, it became clear Zhang speaks and reads English well. He said Zhang said an acquaintance named “Charles” had invited her to the nonexistent event.
Adler said wire records show Zhang paid $20,000 in February to Charles Lee, a Chinese national, for admission to the event. Lee ran the United Nations Chinese Friendship Association and was photographed at least twice with Cindy Yang, a Republican donor and former Florida massage parlor owner. She recently made news after it was learned she was promising Chinese business leaders that her consulting firm could get them access to Mar-a-Lago and mingle with the president.
Yang previously owned a spa where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was charged with soliciting prostitution.
